SWIMMING POOL LOST
SUDDEN COLLAPSE OF FLOOR. MINERS' ESCAPE. By Telegraph —Pres* Assn.—CopyrightMELBOURNE, November 22. Dalesford has been robbed of its swimming baths, made in an excavation formerly used as the'storage basin of an old Cornish mine. Suddenly a portion of the floor collapsed, and the water rapidly drained out with a 'great roar into the mine,. a tunnel below having collapsed. A party of men had previously been working in the tunnel/ and had a narrow escape. They should have been inside, but had stopped work owing to one man refusing to enter because of falls of earth.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11684, 23 November 1923, Page 8
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